Real number between 0 and 1. It sets the minimum proportion of original
instances which must be tagged as noisy in order to go for another iteration.

s

Positive integer setting the stop criterion together with p. The filter stops
after s iterations with not enough noisy instances removed (according to the proportion p).

y

Real number between 0 and 1. It sets the proportion of good instances which
must be stored in each iteration.

theta

Real number between 0 and 1. It sets the proportion of 'good rules' to be selected (see also
'Details' section).

classColumn

Positive integer indicating the column which contains the (factor of) classes.
By default, the last column is considered.

Details

The full description of the method can be looked up in the provided references.
A PART rules set (from RWeka) is built in each of the nfolds partitions of data. After a
'good rules selection' process based on the accuracy of each rule, the subsequent good rules sets are
tested in the whole dataset, and the removal of noisy instances is decided via consensus or
majority voting schemes. Finally, a proportion of good instances (i.e. those whose label agrees
with all the base classifiers) is stored and not considered in subsequent iterations. The process stops
after s iterations with not enough (according to the proportion p) noisy
instances removed.

Value

An object of class filter, which is a list with seven components:

cleanData is a data frame containing the filtered dataset.

remIdx is a vector of integers indicating the indexes for
removed instances (i.e. their row number with respect to the original data frame).

repIdx is a vector of integers indicating the indexes for
repaired/relabelled instances (i.e. their row number with respect to the original data frame).

repLab is a factor containing the new labels for repaired instances.

parameters is a list containing the argument values.

call contains the original call to the filter.

extraInf is a character that includes additional interesting
information not covered by previous items.

Note

The base rule classifier used is PART instead of C4.5rules used in the references.

For the 'good rules selection' step, we implement the 'Best-L rules' scheme since, according to
the authors, it usually outperforms the others 'Adaptive Threshold' and 'Fixed Threshold' schemes.

By means of a message, the number of noisy instances removed
in each iteration is displayed in the console.